Day 47: Night Time in Paris

Today I had an exam and a presentation due so after class I took a much needed nap. I then took a nice long walk on the Promenade Plantee which is absolutely beautiful and one of my favorite walks in Paris.
After that I headed to the Louvre because on Wednesdays and Fridays they're open until 9:30 which is amazing because you get to walk through the halls and there's barely anybody in the museum. Some of the areas were absolutely deserted. Obviously the Mona Lisa is surrounded with people taking pictures as if at any moment the painting might come to life and jump out, but you can't really ever expect anything else in that room. We saw some really amazing Mesopotamian cave art and sculptures and Napoleon's apartments which were two parts of the museum that I hadn't seen yet. Napoleon's apartment was absolutely amazing. Usually I think royal rooms are tacky and way over the top. There's usually an aggressive amount of matching wallpapers to bedsheets to curtains to rugs but Napoleon's apartment is magnificent.
I also got to get another great look at Winged Victory who looked beautiful and powerful as always. I also saw for the first time the Louvre in the Middle Ages exhibit which is really awesome because you can basically see the skeleton of the Louvre. It's a giant room that shows the stones and stuff that made up the original foundation. I didn't take a great picture of it but it's pretty trippy.
We then left and caught the Louvre at sunset which was amazing and headed towards Sacre Coeur where we spent the rest of the night. We sat on the Sacre Coeur and watched the whole city as the sky darkened and little by little the yellow lights came from the buildings. It was all pretty magical, or it would've been if every five seconds we didn't have some vendor trying to sell us beer or wine or some weird glow in the dark toy. They're aggressive there. If you don't look at them they're angry, if they talk to you and you don't respond they'll keep talking and heaven forbid they've tried to sell you something and you buy it from someone else they become enraged. One of my friends bought a bottle of beer from a street vendor after saying no to a couple because she didn't really want one at first and they came over and yelled at her and one gave her the middle finger. One even pointed to the sky and told her God was judging her. Crazy behavior. The view was breathtaking but honestly I could've done without the street vendors.

 The world's first hot dad.

 What I would look like if my head was the same and my body was an ancient mesopotamien scultpture (had to touch the statue to do this right don't tell the authorities)

 Super creepy statue is about to tell you a disturbing story in a creepy creepy voice.

This is a bust of a man who was mid sneeze when it was chiseled (Lindsey's joke).